Switch stops accepting inputs from script after disconnect

[BornIncompetence]

The program seems to work fine the first time the python script is ran with a controller plugged in.

For my use-case however, I need the program to be able to reconnect controllers that become disconnected. The program simply stops when using one controller or floods stdout with the Gamepad disconnected, using defaults... message with more controllers connected.

Whenever I try to run the script after that without rebooting the Switch, it recognizes the controller in the script, but the Switch doesn't register a controller or its inputs.

I'm not sure whether this entails adjusting things on the sysmodule side or the python side